Where's the controversy? As the CEO of a trans-national corporation, she should have said terrorists should be hunted down and shot? The comments that she's concerned about the safety of HP Middle-Eastern employees means she's pro-Islamofascist? I see a general business speech that mostly all corporations gave shortly after 9/11. Fail.
Over the past dozen years, Hewlett-Packard has sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of printers and other products to Iran through a Middle East distributor, sidestepping a U.S. ban on trade with the country.
The policy was in place prior to Carly becoming the HP CEO.
In 1997, two years after President Clinton banned trade with Iran, HP struck a partnership with a newly formed company in Dubai to sell its products in the Middle East. At the time, the company, called Redington Gulf, had only three employees and its sole purpose was to "sell HP supplies to the Iran market," says a history on Redington Gulf's website and Rajesh Chandragiri, the administrative manager in Redington Gulf's Dubai office.
HP uses third party to sell printers in Iran
Carly became CEO in 1999.
And likes to work with the shakedown artist
Lots of businesses worked with Jesse Jackson and helped his organization. Are you going to boycott Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, etc.? Key difference: She was the CEO of a corporation, not a public official steering taxpayer dollars to him. Will she advance his interests as a Senator? No.
Oh really??? Show me another corporation that said what she did at the end of that speech ..just a few weeks after 9/11
And while you are at it..show me one that has said something like:
“May the wisdom of the Prophet Muhammad inspire us this week, and may his wisdom guide the Arab world as it works together to write a new story of the ages for our time. “
So you are saying that Carly should not be held accountable for activity that may have violated the law under her watch just because it started two years before she was the head of the COmpany???
Was she so stupid as to not know what was going on with her company or did she violate the law or are you saying HP is in the clear and did nothing wrong?
“If an HP executive had such direct knowledge, that would violate the trade embargo.
“It is illegal for American companies to do business in Iran,” the spokeswoman, Beth Miller, wrote. “To her knowledge, during her tenure, HP never did business in Iran and fully complied with all U.S. sanctions and laws.”